I found the solution, here it is if someone needs it: CellNameType cellComparator = columnFamily.getComparator(); int clusteringPrefixSize = cellComparator.clusteringPrefixSize();
for (int prefixNb = 0; prefixNb < clusteringPrefixSize; prefixNb++) { AbstractType<?> subtype = cellComparator.subtype(prefixNb); ByteBuffer clusteringKeyBytes = cell.name().get(prefixNb); String value = subtype.getString(clusteringKeyBytes); ... } -- Jacques-Henri Berthemet -----Original Message----- From: Jacques-Henri Berthemet [mailto:jacques-henri.berthe...@genesys.com] Sent: vendredi 7 novembre 2014 19:14 To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Retrieving clustering columns values from cell names Hi Cassandra developers, I'm implementing a custom PerRowSecondaryIndex and I managed to extract all data I need but clustering columns values from cell names. I know that they are part of the cell name itself and it's easy to extract the CQL column name: public static String cellNameToString(CFMetaData metadata, Cell cell) throws CharacterCodingException { if (metadata.isCQL3Table()) { return ByteBufferUtil.string(cell.name().cql3ColumnName(metadata).bytes); But I don't understand how to extract the clustering column values from cell's name. Could someone share some info about that? Thank you, -- Jacques-Henri Berthemet